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Live Play Data

Ancient Tomb

Land · Ultimate Masters (UMA)

10%

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

13326

Decks Running

5459

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

78%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=2641

20%

17%

14%

12%

10%

22%

T6-9

T10+

Median 3 P25 2 · P75 6 · max 23

Cast same turn as drawn 57%

The "good card" funnel

13331 brought · 2455 players

Brought to game

13331

Ever drawn

3376

Reached battlefield

2640

Still on board at game end

2382

Once cast, 90% of this card is still on the battlefield at game end. This reflects how often it survives removal, not just whether it's a permanent.

≥ +4.3pp

Players who cast this card win 33% of the time (n=2376) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=8175).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 39% (n=633).

Read this as correlation, not as the card's contribution. Casting a card means you lived long enough to cast it, so this gap widens with mana value across every card we track.

Observed gap +6.3pp; 95% confidence interval +4.3pp to +8.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

3786 instances

3.2%

Library

62.9%

Battlefield

13.0%

Graveyard

6.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Zhulodok, Void Gorger 81 decks
2 Krenko, Mob Boss 69 decks
3 Vivi Ornitier 63 decks
4 Sauron, the Dark Lord 59 decks
5 Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy 57 decks
6 Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness 48 decks
7 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 48 decks
8 Lumra, Bellow of the Woods 47 decks
9 The Ur-Dragon 46 decks
10 Kaalia of the Vast 44 decks

Card text

Ancient Tomb

Land

: Add

. This land deals 2 damage to you.

Ultimate Masters (UMA) · Rare · Illustrated by Yeong-Hao Han

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games, and the full charts need a sample of at least 25 observed games that is not dominated by a single pilot. Until this card clears those bars you're seeing only the basic counts. Stats refresh nightly.

How is Playgroup Live card data collected?

Players using Playgroup Live import their decklists before a game and log card actions as they play. Each cast, zone change, and resolution is recorded as a real game event. Stats on this site are computed from those events, not from decklist scrapes or theorycrafting. Playgroup has recorded 750,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.